GENEVA — Ugandan rebels this year have killed about 1,200 Congolese civilians and abducted 1,500, mostly children, in a remote region of northeastern Congo, a U.N. official said Friday.

Fighting between government forces and the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels has driven another 220,000 Congolese from their homes in the Haut-Uele region, said Ross Mountain, the U.N. chief’s deputy special representative to Congo.

The Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group has been waging a 20-year conflict in Uganda — one of Africa’s longest and most brutal rebellions.

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